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Date of source: Thursday, October 17, 2019
When an opportunity presented itself for a seventeen year old female refugee from South Sudan to flee, she took it. However, upon arriving to Cairo, she was imprisoned in a residential apartment for three months where she was repeatedly raped. After this horrifying experience, she discovered that...
Date of source: Thursday, November 21, 2019
The students of the Learning Center at the Citadel of Qaitbay. Photo by Cornelis Hulsman
Sun, sea and blue sky
When the students of the Learning Center of the Center for Arab-West Understanding (CAWU) arrived in Alexandria on the morning of Friday, November 8, they could not but being...
Date of source: Sunday, October 6, 2019
One of the most essential elements of the Zionist project revolves around a clear and accurate definition of the Jewish identity. This definition has been quite hard to pin down due to two main factors. The first is the relationship between the Jewish diaspora, the Jewish community living outside...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 17, 2019
This is the third and last article of Junghoon Lee about how Korea is dealing with Muslim immigrants. You can find the links of the previous two parts here and here. Korea is generally not very friendly to such immigrants. Junghoon was deeply impressed reading Fabio Geda’s book ‘Nel mare ci sono i...
Date of source: Thursday, May 2, 2019
The Delegation of Egypt affirmed in the meetings of the 64th Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, that Egypt is committed to the implementation of the international conventions for combating human trafficking and the smuggling of migrants.
Date of source: Thursday, August 15, 2019
Two interns visited the families of Eritrean students who will start their education at the CAWU-Learning Center on August 26, 2019. The families told them about the hardships in Eritrea and how they were able to travel overland to Egypt. All these families have UNHCR cards and are thus legally in...
Date of source: Thursday, August 15, 2019
The Center for Arab-West Understanding Learning Center accepted 15 Eritrean refugee students for the academic year 2019-2020 and asked Samuel McVicar and me to visit their families. This resulted in an article for Arab-West Report and these photos. All families have to get by with very little money...
Date of source: Friday, May 31, 2019
Ambassador Muḥammad al-Badrī, Assistant Foreign Minister for Arab Affairs and Permanent Representative of the Arab League said that the number of Syrians refugees in Egypt currently stands at 137,000 and represents 10% of the number of refugees in other countries, with an estimated 550,000 Syrian...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Junghoon Lee (Republic of Korea) undergraduate in Arabic and Spanish, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, interning between February 2019 and June 2019.
I worked as a research intern for the Center for Arab West Understanding (CAWU) from February to June 2019. I chose to come to Egypt as my...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Arrival of Yemenite asylum seekers in Korea
(Continued from part.1) Most Koreans did not feel that the refugee problems in Europe, including refugees following the Syrian civil war and Muslim radicalism, were related to them. But this situation has changed in 2018, after Korean mass media...
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.